The email client is generally the focal point for unified communications. Emails go there. Voicemails can be trasncribed into emails, or sent as attachments or links in an email. Instant messaging sessions and phone calls can be initiated. And now, with the addition of Google Buzz and Outlook Social Connectors, the email client is becoming the focal point for managing social networking as well.

Microsoft’s approach, using social connectors with Outlook, provides users with a means of aggregating all communications and activity for a given user in one space. The People Pane in Outlook 2010 shows a complete email history with the given user, calendar events, file attachments, RSS feeds, and social networking comments and status updates.

Microsoft Outlook with social connectors is a much more efficient and productive method of sifting through all of the messaging clutter to be able to quickly and easily find all relevant communications from a given user. There is still room, though, for someone to create a single software application to act as an interface to aggregate all of the various social networks in total, rather than on a contact by contact basis.

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